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“To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you've gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can't separate what's genuine from what is necessary.”

People Energy Return Politician Genuine Contact Inspiring Love Adulation

Author:Robert Reich

“We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.”

Ifs World Wells Home Nations Pay Boys Return Politician Taxes Debt More Money

Author:Will Rogers

“The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.”

Giving Made States Political Given Opinion Return Politician Function Paid Soldier Public Opinion Provision Hysteria Charlatans

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.”

Would Be America Brain Nice Return Politician Accepted Stomach Being Nice Arena Diminishing Returns

Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.”

Ifs Important Government Our Lives Return Politician Trade Fewer More Money

Author:John Stossel